cheesin'
Well-Known Member
Hey everybody. Didn't know where else to post this problem to so I hope this is ok. I'm running a Welthink 600 Watt HPS/MH Digital Ballast for my grow. I've used this ballast for about a year and everything was fine until I recently moved.
The light had been on for about 2 days when all the sudden my cable stopped working. I called Comcast to come and check it out and he basically said that there was a ton of interference in our cable lines and that we blew our outside breaker. For some reason, I just knew it had something to do with my grow, which by the way, was located no more than a foot through the wall where the cable line was that he testing with his fancy meter. Anyway, he said he had to go to his truck to get something and I ran into my grow room and yanked the main plug. He comes back in after doing some tinkering and checks the line again. Lo and behold, no interference this time. He left thinking he had fixed it and was a cool dude.
I was freaking out though, and jumped on the computer right when he left to see if something from my grow would've triggered the cable to shut down. I found out that old (pretty much 1st and 2nd generation) digital/electronic ballasts send off huge amounts of RF waves that could potentially make this happen. I found two other threads from people that talked about their digital ballasts causing their cable (or someone else's) to shut off, thus prompting an unwelcome visit from the cable guy, but no real definite answer to my question.
Sorry to be long, but my question is, if I go out and replace my old digital ballast with a new magnetic ballast of the same proportions (600 watt, hps) can I just plug this into my existing reflector and be good to go? I'm not gonna be pumping out shit tons of RF waves again right? Someone please just give me some input on this if you have any, I'm really pretty freaked out over this.
Thanks in advance.
The light had been on for about 2 days when all the sudden my cable stopped working. I called Comcast to come and check it out and he basically said that there was a ton of interference in our cable lines and that we blew our outside breaker. For some reason, I just knew it had something to do with my grow, which by the way, was located no more than a foot through the wall where the cable line was that he testing with his fancy meter. Anyway, he said he had to go to his truck to get something and I ran into my grow room and yanked the main plug. He comes back in after doing some tinkering and checks the line again. Lo and behold, no interference this time. He left thinking he had fixed it and was a cool dude.
I was freaking out though, and jumped on the computer right when he left to see if something from my grow would've triggered the cable to shut down. I found out that old (pretty much 1st and 2nd generation) digital/electronic ballasts send off huge amounts of RF waves that could potentially make this happen. I found two other threads from people that talked about their digital ballasts causing their cable (or someone else's) to shut off, thus prompting an unwelcome visit from the cable guy, but no real definite answer to my question.
Sorry to be long, but my question is, if I go out and replace my old digital ballast with a new magnetic ballast of the same proportions (600 watt, hps) can I just plug this into my existing reflector and be good to go? I'm not gonna be pumping out shit tons of RF waves again right? Someone please just give me some input on this if you have any, I'm really pretty freaked out over this.
Thanks in advance.
